Drury University Athletics

Jordan Mellott will enter his third year as a Drury Lady Panthers assistant coach in 2022-23.

He was named the NCAA-II Assistant Coach of the Year by the WBCA following his second year at Drury in 2021-22 for a team that went 32-5, 17-3 in the GLVC, and won the team's sixth-straight conference championship. That team also featured NCAA-II All-American Paige Robinson and had five named All-GLVC.  
 
In his first year as a Drury assistant, Mellott helped the Lady Panthers to an NCAA-II Runner-Up finish, a 24-2 record, and the program’s fifth-straight Great Lakes Valley Conference championship. The team also produced the NCAA-II Player of the Year, Paige Robinson, who was also the GLVC Player of the Year. Drury had four players honored as all-conference selections, earned a GLVC Team Academic Award, and had seven student-athletes named to the GLVC All-Academic team.

In his two years at Drury, the Lady Panthers have gone 56-7, 34-4 in the GLVC, won two conference championships, advanced to the NCAA-II Tournament twice, and finished as the national runner-up in 2021. They have also produced two All-Americans, nine All-GLVC selections, and 15 All-Academic selections in the conference. 
 
Mellott joined the Lady Panthers from Adams State University in Colorado, where he served as an assistant for two seasons. The Kansas native was the assistant girls’ coach at Har-Ber High School in Springdale, Arkansas, for the 2017-18 and left with head coach Jamie Green for the collegiate post at Adams State.
 
Before his move to Arkansas, Mellott was the head coach for a highly successful high school program in Leavenworth, Kansas. He led the Leavenworth High School girls’ program to a 64-11 record in three seasons, a Class 5 state championship in 2015, and a state semifinals appearance in all three of his years as head coach. Mellott was named the 2015 5A Coach of the Year by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association and was selected to serve as the head coach of the Missouri-Kansas High School All-Star Game. During his three seasons as head coach, Leavenworth produced nine players that moved on to the collegiate level.
 
Mellott moved into the head coaching position at Leavenworth after serving two years as an assistant there. The program won the 2014 state title while he was an assistant and was in the Kansas state semis in both seasons.
 
Mellott graduated from Benedictine (Kan.) College in 2012 with a degree in Elementary Education and Special Education, and he earned a Master’s degree in Education, School & Counseling Psychology with an Emphasis in Positive Coaching from the University of Missouri in 2017. 
 
He and his wife Sally have one son, Griffin, who turned three last May.